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Heavy Metal Ovipine (Gazebofolium postapocalypsin) (Gazebo-leaf after the apocalypse)
Creator: Coolsteph
Ancestor: Ovipine Dwarf Gazebo
Habitat: Ovi Veldt, North Ovi Tropical Scrub, Ovi Chaparral, Ovi Temperate Woodland, Ovi Temperate Savanna
Size: 55 cm tall
Diet: Photosynthesis
Respiration: ???
Thermoregulation: Ectotherm
Reproduction: Sexual, Hermaphrodite (Airborne Spores)


A very hardy species, capable of surviving cold, dry, and hot conditions with fairly poor soils, so long as there's at least a thin layer of organic matter. Its fairly high nitrogen needs and relatively slow growth compared to local purple flora or asterplents usually limits it to areas too cold, dry, hot, or some combination of those to be ideal for contemporary purple flora or asterplents, such as mountains. Still, its high nitrogen needs for its size means it struggles to live on especially high elevations, with less organic matter.

Its leaves are thick, waxy, and matte-colored; they grow most abundantly at the sides of the legs, forming stiff tufts. Not all of its roots are petrified: only its oldest, biggest ones. As the leg-roots rise above the ground, they grow thicker bone-bark. Underground, its leg-roots taper into thinner-shelled areas, until the petrification is merely a crispy shell. It retains an innate “mycelia” of fungus-like tissues. It is very good at “mining” for phosphorus and nitrogen, as well as obtaining moisture, compensating somewhat for its fairly high nitrogen needs compared to contemporary flora in the wake of a planetary nitrogen crash. Metals it sucks up from the soil accumulate in its stony bark. Where the soil is especially rich in metals, its trunk becomes slightly more silvery and shiny.

Its exceptional tolerance for heavy metals allows it to carve a unique niche living beside cryoflora, which have similar tolerances to cold, montane conditions. However, it can survive where the soil is not high in heavy metals, though it may not have as much of an advantage against cryoflora. It is often more common in the higher-elevation parts of its habitats, due to colder temperatures deterring competitors.

It can be used as a gazebo by sufficiently small (roughly <= 15 cm) fauna; for large fauna, however, its use as a gazebo is questionable.

For organisms like these, it would be very helpful to have a supplementary showing what one branch looks like.

Also, there is in fact no entry called "Ovipine Dwarf Gazebos". Did you mean Ovipine Dwarf Gazebo (singular), or the genus group descended from them, Shrub Gazebos?

What about Reproduction?

QUOTE (HethrJarrod @ May 1 2023, 07:13 AM)

What about Reproduction?

The template says:
"Reproduction: Sexual, Hermaphrodite (Airborne Spores)".
What did you mean to say?

That what is says. But like where do the spores come from, etc. What is life like for newly formed Gazebos?